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DisneyWar Excerpt in WSJ

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran an excerpt of the highly-hyped DisneyWar. This piece talks about many of the people problems on the television side of things.

Slate thinks this business scandal book will sell while others haven't. The article quotes sales numbers from others in the genre. These are from Bookscan, which capture retail data and represents about 70% of the U.S. market.

• 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America by Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller - 16,765 copies
• Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner by Alec Klein - 9,176 copies
• Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard by George Anders - 8,081 copies
• Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner by Nina Munk - 5,000 copies
• There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future by Kara Swisher - 3,744 copies
• The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal by Jo Johnson and Martine Orange - 654 copies

Simon & Schuster has printed 200,000 copies of DisneyWar. I guess we'll see.